Not tested on animals, only family, "Lip Reading" is a collection of hilarious observations, memoirs and jottings from one of Britain's most entertaining women. Maureen Lipman, the woman who has had both a rose and a sewage system named after her, has a gift for making anything seem funny. Whether it is hot flushes, trying to make sense of the cricket commentary, or giving the perfect dinner party, her individual slant on the subject is either refreshing, outrageous or downright priceless, or aloof the above.
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MAUREEN LIPMAN has recently appeared on stage in PEGGY FOR YOU and OKLAHOMA! Her film work includes Educating Rita and besides being a PPA Columnist of the Year, her five previous books have all made the Bestseller Lists.
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Read MY Lips: it's Great!,
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The most recent and best of Maureen Lipman's autobiographies, Lip Reading is a hilarious ode to an unexpectedly unconventional family life. Lipman is well-known in Britain both for her acting talents and for her slightly neurotic, Jewish humour in the tradition of one her her favourite directors, Woody Allen. This book is a collection of anecdotes from her atypical life with her husband, playwrite Jack Rosenthal (Yentl) and their two children...I've been a fan of Maureen Lipman for some years, although I can't claim it hasn't lost me some friends- caused by my attacks of 'Maureen-itis' a seemingly incurable condition brought on by excessive consumption of her books, and invariably preceded by "You'll never guess what's happened now!" My only criticism would be that this book is now three years old- we addicts need another one, and soon!
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Lipreading joke,
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This review is from: Lip Reading (Paperback)
Has nothing to do with learning how to read lips; I just don't know how to describe this book except it is more of a novel.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Maureen, Friends and Family, and Cast of Thousands. And fun.,
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This review is from: Lip Reading (Hardcover)
There's Maureen, named for Ms O'Hara; her rabbi, her family, co-star Hugh Jackman from "Oklahoma!" for whom all the females in her house put on eyeliner to see off to the airport at 5 AM, her acupuncturist, friendly stage-door street-people. She sings, dances, acts on the telly, movies, and stage, and writes about all of the above, usually simultaneously. All this in short paragraphs, frequently concluding with an unnanounced joke. And read all her others. You'll thank me.
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